Information:File copyright tags/Free licenses

Free content is free as in freedom. This page links to some of the most popular licenses for releasing such content.

Apache Software Foundation[edit]

Berkeley Software Distribution[edit]

BSD

Creative Commons[edit]

  • {{cc-zero}} – Creative commons zero 1.0 license.
  • {{Cc-by-1.0}} – Attribution 1.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-2.0}} – Attribution 2.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-2.5}} – Attribution 2.5 license.
  • {{cc-by-3.0}} – Attribution 3.0 license
  • {{cc-by-4.0}} – Attribution 4.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-sa-1.0}} – Attribution-Sharealike 1.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} – Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} – Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license.
    • {{cc-by-sa-2.5-in}} – Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 India license based on Indian law.
  • {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} – Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 license.
  • {{cc-by-sa-4.0}} – Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 license. This is suggested as a file licensing tag for image creators.

Generally, a work licensed under a CC tag with more requirements cannot be integrated into a work licensed under a more permissive CC license (such as integrating a CC BY-SA work into a CC BY work), unless the entire target work switches to the less permissive license.

Free Art license[edit]

Free Art license

GNU's Not Unix![edit]

Note: The licenses in this section require reprinting the entire license text with any reuse of the image. If you created the image yourself, please consider using a different license. If one includes any of the content, the entire book/section goes under GFDL, unlike CC BY-SA.

MIT (Expat)[edit]

Other[edit]

  • {{MW-screenshot}} - MediaWiki screenshot (a picture of this wiki or any others)